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Benefit concert for victims of war in Ukraine to be staged at Universal Hall, Findhorn


By Garry McCartney

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Georgian Nana Mzhavanadze will be performing at the event with a traditional instrument.
Georgian Nana Mzhavanadze will be performing at the event with a traditional instrument.

A BENEFIT concert is being held near Findhorn to raise funds for people suffering in Ukraine, as well as local refugees.

‘Hearts Around Ukraine’ - on at 5pm in Universal Hall on Sunday June, 26 - will feature master piper Allan MacDonald, Nana Mzhavanadze from Georgia’s traditional songs, as well as community groups Bukhari, Sounds Deep and Forres Big Choir.

The event is being organised by the Bukhari choir with Findhorn-based charity, Ecologia Youth Trust.

Bukhari Georgian Choir.
Bukhari Georgian Choir.

Spokeswoman, Madge Bray, confirmed headliners Bukhari are 15 singers who practice weekly in the village.

She said: “We sing traditional music from Georgia, another small corner of Europe with its own beautiful, harmonic, polyphonic sound.”

Many choir members have sung in Georgia and teacher Dr Nana Mzhavanadze will support them at the concert.

Madge added: “Another key performer will be Scottish tradition bearer and piobaireachd scholar, Allan Macdonald from Glenuig, who has been described as ‘the most exciting piper of his generation’. We will also be joined by Iona Kielhorn who will share some of her grandfather James Ramsay MacDonald’s quotations on war and peace.”

Sounds Deep and Forres Big Choir meet weekly in Forres and are led by Bill Henderson.

Proceeds from Hearts Around Ukraine will be sent to war surgeon Dr David Nott, currently training Ukrainian doctors in specialist emergency war trauma surgery, and to local Ukrainian refugees.

Madge added: “This concert will be unique in that it will weave together song and story. We will sing in Scots, Gaelic, Georgian, Ukranian, Russian and in German. We will sing lullabies and of our freedom to defend that which is dear to us, as well as loss, hope and our shared reverence for the Divine in all things.”

See https://bit.ly/HeartsAroundUkraine for more information.



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